Home›Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles›Engine Class›RocketBrowse ByRocketFactsRocketSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1957 1RocketFilter Results128 entriesVehicle TypeAllCrewed Spacecraft (3)Orbital Launch Vehicles (75)Spacecraft (78)ManufacturerAllAirbus Defence and Space (4)ArianeGroup (6)Aérospatiale (5)British Aerospace (2)British Aircraft Corporation (1)Chrysler Corporation (2)Convair (11)Dornier Flugzeugwerke (1)Douglas Aircraft Company (1)Firefly Aerospace (5)Glenn L. Martin Company (2)Goodyear Aerospace (1)Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (4)Lockheed Martin Corporation (2)Martin Marietta (15)McDonnell Douglas (5)Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (6)Myasishchev Design Bureau (1)North American Aviation (1)Northrop Grumman Corporation (2)Progress Rocket Space Centre (9)S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (4)Saunders-Roe (1)Scaled Composites (1)SEREB (3)SpaceX (6)The Boeing Company (1)United Launch Alliance (3)Virgin Orbit (1)Vought (1)MakeAllAirbus Defence and Space (4)ArianeGroup (6)Aérospatiale (7)Boeing (1)British Aerospace (2)British Aircraft Corporation (1)Chrysler (1)Convair (11)Dornier (1)Douglas Aircraft Company (1)Firefly Aerospace (5)Glenn L. Martin Company (2)Goodyear Aerospace (1)Israel Aerospace Industries (4)Lockheed Martin (2)McDonnell Douglas (5)Mitsubishi (6)Myasishchev (1)North American Aviation (1)Northrop Grumman (2)Progress Rocket Space Centre (9)RKK Energia (4)Saunders-Roe (1)Scaled Composites (2)SEREB (1)SpaceX (6)United Launch Alliance (3)Virgin Orbit (1)ModelAllDiamant (rocket) (2)Falcon 9 (1)Firefly Elytra (3)YearAll1947 (1)1949 (1)1953 (1)1957 (3)1958 (4)1959 (3)1960 (5)1961 (3)1962 (7)1963 (2)1964 (4)1965 (3)1966 (2)1967 (1)1969 (2)1970 (2)1971 (4)1974 (1)1975 (4)1977 (1)1979 (3)1981 (1)1982 (2)1983 (1)1984 (2)1986 (2)1987 (1)1988 (2)1989 (3)1994 (1)1996 (1)1998 (1)1999 (1)2000 (1)2001 (1)2002 (2)2003 (2)2004 (1)2009 (2)2010 (4)2012 (1)2016 (1)2018 (1)2019 (1)2021 (2)2023 (2)2024 (2)2025 (1)2026 (1)Country of OriginAllFrance (24)Germany (1)Israel (4)Japan (7)Russia (5)Soviet Union (9)United Kingdom (4)United States (68)Body StyleAllAircraft (no road body style) (1)Launch vehicle (50)Missile (17)Research rocket (2)Sounding rocket (7)Spacecraft (18)Target rocket (1)Upper stage (1)PropulsionAllAerozine 50 and nitrogen tetroxide (1)Ethanol (2)Hydrazine (3)Hydrogen (17)Hydrogen peroxide (1)Kerosene (11)Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (3)Liquid Methane (7)MMH and MON-3 (hypergolic) (4)Monomethylhydrazine and mixed oxides of nitrogen (1)Nitrous oxide and rubber hybrid (2)RP-1 and liquid oxygen (7)Solid propellant (34)UDMH and dinitrogen tetroxide (1)StatusAllAbandoned (1)Cancelled (14)Design only (never built) (10)Destroyed (1)In service (14)Out of production (15)Prototype (2)Retired from service (46)Surviving (1)Under development (5)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50IAI ArrowRocketIAI BeresheetRocketIAI ShavitRocketIkar (rocket stage)RocketITS launch vehicleRocketJupiter Icy Moons ExplorerRocketLauncherOneRocketLGM-118 PeacekeeperRocketLGM-25C Titan IIRocketLittle Joe (rocket)RocketM1 (missile)RocketM2 (missile)RocketM20 (missile)RocketM51RocketMagellan (spacecraft)RocketMaia (rocket)RocketMars ExpressRocketMartin Marietta SpacemasterRocketMcDonnell Douglas BarbarianRocketMercury-Redstone Launch VehicleRocketMGM-134 MidgetmanRocketMyasishchev RSS-40 BuranRocketN1 (Rocket)RocketN-IRocketN-II (rocket)RocketNorthrop Grumman Minotaur IIRocketNorthrop Grumman Minotaur IIIRocketPayload Assist ModuleRocketPGM-11 RedstoneRocketR-7 SemyorkaRocketRM-90 Blue Scout IIRocketRosettaRocketRTV-A-2 HirocRocketRus-MRocketS2 (missile)RocketS3 (missile)RocketSaturn C-5NRocketSaturn IRocketSaturn S-IVRocketSaturn S-IVBRocketScout XRocketScout X-1ARocketScout X-2BRocketScout X-2MRocketSea Dragon (rocket)RocketS-ICRocketSkylark (rocket)RocketSM-65 AtlasRocketSoyuz-5 (rocket)RocketSoyuz-7RocketShowing 51 to 100 of 128, page 2 of 3.← Previous123Next →Sources1. Wikipedia: Sputnik 1tier 2WikipediaSputnik 1, lead section, launch date sentenceQuote, Sputnik 1, lead section, launch date sentenceIt was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.